Rivaling paradigms in psychiatric neurosurgery: adjustability versus quick fix versus minimal-invasiveness

Rivaling paradigms in psychiatric neurosurgery: adjustability versus quick fix versus minimal-invasiveness

In the wake of deep brain stimulation (DBS) development, ablative neurosurgical procedures are seeing a comeback, although they had been discredited and nearly completely abandoned in the 1970s because of their unethical practice. Modern stereotactic ablative procedures as thermal or radiofrequency ablation, and particularly radiosurgery (e.g., Gamma Knife) are much safer than the historical pr...

Eliminating measles--no quick fix.

In recent years, a number of countries have had notable success in eliminating measles using a variety of vaccination strategies. Three WHO regions — the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe — now have measles elimination goals. In the Americas a strategy based on supplementing high routine coverage with an initial catch-up and periodic follow-up campaigns has achieved a dramatic redu...

Material witness: A quick fix.

M AERIA L W TN SS Delicately patterned microand nanostructures can be produced without the need for laborious fabrication, by relying on physical forces to organize materials spontaneously into intricate forms. The capacity of soft materials such as surfactants and block copolymers to self-organize into regular patterns has been long recognized1–3, and superlattices and other ordered arrays in ...

Fertility Outcome after Operative Laparoscopy versus No Treatment in Infertile Women with Minimal or Mild Endometriosis

The Solution First Programming Process—or “How Quick Fix is much more than a quick fix”!

Learning to program is hard and one major obstacle for students is getting to grips with the programming process itself: What do I do now, what are the next steps, and what end result do I want to achieve? Further complications arise as many, even simple, designs require quite a lot of code to be written that are just “stepping stones” on the path to a solution. Thus, instead of “writing the co...